A WOKING pub landlord found in his bed had died of heart disease, a post-mortem examination has determined.

The body of the 58-year-old, named as Mick Clarke, was discovered at the Birch and Pines pub in Dartmouth Avenue, Sheerwater, on Thursday lunchtime (May 31), just 12 hours after police had attended the scene following reports of an alleged assault.

The victim had been treated by paramedics in the early hours of Thursday but declined to go to hospital.

Police were then called back to the pub shortly before 12.30pm, and Mr Clarke's body was found.

A police spokesman said: "A post-mortem examination carried out on a 58-year-old man found at a property in Dartmouth Avenue, Sheerwater, has given a cause of death as coronary heart disease.

"The death is not being treated as suspicious and the matter will now be passed to the coroner in due course."

Jake Black, 22, of Hennessy Court, Sheerwater, has been charged with assault occasioning ABH in relation to the initial alleged incident in the early hours of May 31. He is due to appear at Guildford Maigstrates' Court onJune 19.